March1990

vol 21#6

Police Academy delivers
contract training
What do the Japanese Consulate
in Vancouver and the SPCA have
in common? Both are recipients
of Police Academy contract training. The Japanese Consulate and
the SPCA are just two of 26 organizations and agencies Police
Academy has served over the
past two years in addition to its
regular client group, the municipal police. In the case of the
Japanese Consulate, the Academy
provided special training in the
techniques of advanced tactical
driving for chauffeurs; SPCA
staff required firearms training to
handle .22 calibre rifles and shotguns in order to put sick and
injured animals out of their
misery.
Academy instructors quite frequently travel to Alberta to provide contract training for native
police forces in the Hobbema area
in such subjects as telecommunication operators' training
and officer survival.
Most recently, the Prince
George district office of the
Ministry of Forests was Police
Academy's extension classroom
for 28 forestry enforcement officers. As part of their role in enforcing provisions of the Forest
Act, the enforcement officers
received training in basic investigating skills, including note
taking, report writing, crime

scene preservation and evidence
preparation.
On March 21, 50 social
workers from the Fraser Valley
region of the Ministry of Social
Services and Housing received
instruction in presentation of
evidence and court room procedures. As part of a day-long,
in-service program for these

workers, staff from Police
Academy travelled to'Surrey to
present lectures on the role of the
professional witness in Family
and Child Services Act prosecutions.
During the past 12 months,
these special contract initiatives
have generated over $40,000 in
revenue. CJ

Justice lnstitute's
integrated dangerous goods
training
Dangerous goods, also known as
hazardous materials, are all
around us. From gasoline tanker
trucks and trains laden with toxic
chemicals, to industrial processing firms and barns loaded with
pesticides and herbicides,
dangerous goods present potentially lethal threats to the public
as well as to fire fighters and
other responders to incidents involving these substances.
In order to improve understanding of and training in
dangerous goods response, Fire
Academy held a two-day curriculum design (DACUM)
workshop which identified skill
and knowledge areas required for

first responders to a dangerous
goods incident. First responders
include fire, police, emergency
health services and provincial
emergency preparedness personnel, environmental officials,
transport and rail workers, highways workers, and so forth.
Workshop participants conducted
a British Columbia needs
analysis and then related these
needs to NFPA472, an international standard that has been
developed to identify required
competencies.
Two special consultants attended the workshop: Chief John
Eversole, Co-ordinator of the
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Fire Academy • Police Academy • Corrections Academy • Finance and Administration Division
Educational Services Division • Emergency Health Services Academy • Provincial Emergency Program Academy

The JI as publisher

In its quest for educational excellence, the JI
is constantly on the
look-out for innovative
trainers and training
methods. We bring in
big-name speakers,
stage simulation exercises that are sometimes too realistic for
comfort, and have, on
occasion, even resorted to playing
games to reinforce a learning objective. But the backbone of our
training is often old-fashioned
written material. Over the years,
the Jl's academies and divisions
have produced a wide variety of
publications for classroom use
and public distribution. The following is a list of some of the
more recent publications. If
we've missed some of your most
popular works, or if you have new
ones coming out, let us know and
we'll update the list from time to
time.

Fire Academy
The Fire Academy Edukit is a
training module developed to
enable the Fire Service of British
Columbia to standardize and
upgrade fire fighting knowledge
and ability. The content and procedures are based on training
materials adopted by the B.C.
Fire Service. Each module
focuses on a particular subject or
skill area and consists of printed
material and a training video
with guidelines for using the pack2

age as a training aid. In B.C.,
each edukit costs $60, plus provincial tax. Edukits can be ordered
from the Fire Academy and will
be shipped by mail. Thirteen titles are currently available: Apparatus Familiarization,
Electrical Safety, Extinguishers,
Fire Behaviour, Fire Hose, Fire
Streams, Ground Ladders, Orientation and Safety, Ropes and
Knots, SCBA, Small Tools, Ventilation, and Water Supplies.
Jim Bond, Fire Academy, has
just completed an interactive
workbook for first responders to
dangerous goods incidents. The
book will go to print in April and
is the second workbook of its type
that Jim has produced. The first
one in print is for fire fighters
responding to emergencies other
than dangerous goods incidents.
Both books are based on the Incident Command System, a
decision-making process used by
the officer in charge of an emergency scene. These versatile
workbooks can be used for selfstudy or in classrooms, and they
are both educational and enjoyable to use.

Len Garis is co-ordinating production of
five Edukits which are
in various stages of
production. Ground
Ladders is being
reviewed before a
second printing, and
two edukits for fire investigation are in
draft form, one for fire
fighters, and the second for iocal
assistants to the fire commissioner. The remaining two
edukits will deal with dangerous
goods. Preparation of these
edukits commenced with a curriculum design workshop on
March 19 and 20. See separate
story, page 1.

PEP Academy
The PEP Search and Rescue
Manual has been produced and
700 copies have been distributed
to PEP search and rescue groups
and volunteers throughout B.C.
A Search and Rescue
Instructors' Manual is near completion and will be distributed to
PEP search and rescue groups
(SAR), as soon as it is printed.
The Search and Rescue Manual
Resource Book referred to in the
SAR Manual is also nearing completion.
Other publications projects include revision of the Search
Management Manual for use in
Search Management courses, and
a review of all search and rescue
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•••SPOTLIGHT•••
On staff
Changes...
Monica Clayton has replaced
Lori Ovens in the switchboard
reception position. This change
became effective on March 19.
Eleanor Jeffrey will join
Fire Academy staff on April 2 to
start a one-year assignment in a
Clerk Steno 3 position. Eleanor
has been working with Indian
and Northern Affairs Canada.
At Fire Academy, Eleanor will
be involved with the programs
the Academy has been contracted
to do on fire safety for Indian
bands in the province. During
the latter part of March, Carole
Anne Bertenshaw and Carol
Bosch have been working parttime in Fire Academy assembling, packaging and mailing the
800 Electrical Fire Safety Edukits
B.C. Hydro purchased for fire,
police and ambulance stations
throughout B.C.
In Educational Services
Division, Kate Walker resumed
her position as Divisional
Secretary for Educational Services on March 19. This change
took place in the nick of time (no
pun intended): Bev Karakochuk, who had substituted
while Kate was on maternity
leave, had her baby, a healthy
boy named Nicholas Alexander,
on March 22. Suzanne Walker
has just begun a part-time student assistant position in the
library. She is working on her
master's degree in library science
at UBC. Alison Campbell,
another part-time student assistant in the library, will be leaving
the JI at the end of April to take
a three-month vacation in
Europe. She will receive her
master's degree in library science
from UBC in April.
Cora Austria has resigned as
Clerk Steno 3 for EHS Academy
to join the staff at the Cancer
Control Clinic. Cora will use her
excellent word processing and
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medical terminology skills in
her position as a medical
transcriptionist. All the staff at
EHS wish Cora every success in
her new job.
Brenda Adam has joined the
Registration Office staff in a new,
part-time OA2 position which
was created to respond to the
growing demand for registration
office services.

tive Needs Analysis conference at
the Canadian Police College in Ottawa. The purpose of the conference was to assist in the
development of training initiatives for police chiefs and their
deputies, and senior executive
staff.

Recognition ...

Former staff

The Given Year, a radio
play about nuclear war by Lydia
Stewart, audiovisual booking
clerk, will be produced by the
UBC radio station, CITR. Lydia
will also read a part for the
production which will be broadcast this spring or summer.
We'll let you know the broadcast
date as soon as it's announced.
On March 15, JI Librarian
April Haddad gave a talk about
the Justice Institute and its
library to 50 law librarians at the
monthly meeting of the Vancouver Association of Law
Libraries.

Elizabeth Davies, the
library's Interlibrary Loan Clerk
from 1985 to 1987, received her
library degree last year and is
now a children's librarian at Burnaby Public Library.

Conferences ...
Paul Smith, Director of Fire
Academy, was a guest speaker at
the February 24 B.C. Fire Chiefs'
Executive Meeting in Richmond.
He updated the Chiefs on Academy programs and the development of material.
Police Academy Director, Phil
Crosby-Jones, attended a twoday retreat on February 19 and
20 with members of the police
commission to participate in a
series of team building exercises
facilitated by Lee Drummond,
Police Chief of Oceanside, California. Chief Drummond has successfully incorporated this
process throughout his department in conjunction with organizational goal and objective
setting.
Following the retreat on
February 20, the Director attended a three-day Senior Execu-

Visitors
Celebrated criminologist Dr.
Andre Normandeau, has
received a contract from the
federal Solicitor General's Ministry to prepare a discussion paper
on A Vision of the Future of
Policing in Canada. In connection with this, Dr. Normandeau
visited Police Academy on March
15 and met with the Director,
Phil Crosby.Jones, and two
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The Zen of Lotto-649
by Paul Harris

Ho hum ... another Thursday
morning, and another humdrum
day at the Justice Institute.
Don't get me wrong. The Jl's a
great place to work; nice people, I
love them, good working conditions, fabulous view, but- gee there's gotta be more to life than
this!
I finish the morning mail, grab
a coffee from Joan's place, and
retire to my desk in the nether
regions of the basement. I've got
a little job to do during my coffee
break. As the newly delegated
bookkeeper of the INCREDIBLY
LUCKY ELEVEN RETIREMENT
FUND LOTI'ERY GROUP, I have
to check our numbers against the
previous night's 649 draw.
Boring. I hate it. I don't like running this thing and -- only two
weeks into it - I'm considering
dropping the whole thing. I've
never really believed in lotteries
anyway, mostly considering them
to be the last resort of the
desperate. My attitude has always been: "Don't predicate your
future happiness on winning a lottery; just get on with your life, do
what you have to do, and the

riches of the world will be at your
feet." Or some Zen-like sentiment
to that effect.
The coffee's good, I take a sip,
and dial "Lotto Central." I jot the
numbers down and start checking
them. Another sip of java, and I
notice that we have three. Great ten bucks back into the pot! Holy
moly, four numbers here, a big
$75 or $100 win, maybe enough to
plan a party on. Now I see five in
a row -- wow! We've got five, and I
look for the sixth, but it's not to
be. Still, FIVE of SIX has got to
be worth a bundle. Not being a
serious player, I have no idea how
much, but my head is swimming
with the notion that we might be
into BIG BUCKS here. I'm thinking hundreds of thousands. My
hands are a little shaky, my heart
palpitating, and any previous
Buddha-like notion of being superior to such crass desire flies right
out the window. I hope we've won
cash, and the more of it the better.
Tricia Kobayashi can tell you
the rest of this story, of how I
stumbled upstairs, ran into her
first in the hallway, and enquired, in a quavering voice: "Do

you have any idea what five out
of six numbers is worth, Trish?"
It turned out to be worth
$1500, as all must know by now.
A nice little win, but -- split 11
ways -- not enough to have
produced any letters of resignation. And what did $136.36 buy
for each of us? It was too much to
throw back into the buying pool,
but not really enough to get totally decadent with. Just the wrong
amount to win. Rumours abound,
and stories range from new contact lenses to skiing weekends.
Personally, I bought some new
records, a few new parts for my
bicycle, and the remainder was
well-invested in a couple of jugs
of beer at the Yale Hotel during
one of their Saturday afternoon
blues jam sessions.
Trouble is, I'm hooked now.
I've seen five numbers, and I'm
looking for six. If not this Wednesday, then next Saturday, and
if not then, well............. .
Besides being a budding
author, Paul Harris (alias Guido
the Enforcer), is a Stockworker in
Finance and Administration
Division. 0

Open Learning Agency/Justice
Institute work on curriculum for fire
services diploma
Irwin DeVries of Fire Academy
and Susan Haglund of Open
Leaming Agency, Open College,
co-chaired the first meeting of the
Curriculum Advisory Committee
to establish a diploma program
leading to a degree in Fire Services Administration. The committee hopes to have the program
in place by late fall
The meeting was held on
Saturday and Sunday, March 17
and 18, at the Justice Institute.
Attending the meeting were
representatives from University

of Victoria's School of Public
Administration; BCIT; Dalhousie University, Halifax;
Greater Vancouver Fire Chiefs;
and two fire service graduates
of the Western Oregon State College degree program in Fire
Science.
The meeting was very productive in identifying courses and
course credits that will be required in the program. Discussions at meetings to be held early
in the fall will focus on a detailed
structure of courses. 0
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related manuals (Cliff/Mountain
Rescue, Search Dog and Handler,
Search Team Leader, etc.).

Emergency Health Services
Academy
EHSA produces four continuing education packages each year
for ambulance personnel. Each
package contains a video, a
module, and an interactive
television show. Participants in
each of the continuing education
topics can receive credit for the
topic by successfully completing a
short assignment which accompanies each package.
EHSA has produced approximately 30 of these continuing education packages on topics
ranging from documenting an ambulance call, and an anatomy of
an air evacuation call, to a variety
of medical subjects such as
trauma and hypothermia.

Police Academy
Doug Farenholtz recently completed a protocol for the Peace
Offices' Physical Abilities Test
(POPAT). The booklet provides
detailed instructions covering all
aspects of the test, including
equipment and a step-by-step
guide for conducting the test.
This minimum entry level test,
developed by Doug at the JI,
has generated wide interest and
use across Canada and is the subject of numerous enquiries from
across the United States. This interest stems largely from concern
regarding various tests currently
used that do not have job-related
validity, which is the basis of ·
POPAT.

Educational Services Division

notes that are consistent with
the Branch's approved procedures, but which are organized
from the point of view of the
volunteer; b) reproduction of all
instructional material which is
presented during the training session by way of overhead
transparencies; c) exercises which
help prepare the volunteers for
the roles and responsibilities required of them as part of the
license granted by the Public
Gaming Branch.

Office of the Public Trustee
Employee Orientation Booklet:
The Office of the Public Trustee is
a large and complex operation,
responsible for protecting the assets and legal claims of persons
who cannot protect themselves.
To assist the office in interpreting
its mission, goals and

Criminal Case Processing
Manual - Court Services Branch:
Processing a criminal case
through the Court Registry involves a considerable amount of attention to detail and legal
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• • • NOTES & NOTICES • • •

Casino Volunteer Training
Booklet: In support of a training

Historical note

initiative by the Public Gaming
Branch, Program Services
developed a booklet which combines training notes and exercises
for charitable organizations' fundraising volunteers. The features
of the booklet include: a) training

Former JI Principal Gerry
Kilcup phoned the other day to
wish Police Academy "Happy
Anniversary."
On March 17, it was 15 years
ago that the newly constituted

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philosophies to staff, and to assist
the staff in knowing one another
and the respective duties of the
various sections, the office asked
program services to develop an
employee orientation handbook.
Features of the booklet include: a)
organizational charts for each section, along with photographs of
senior management; b) an overview of the statutory functions of
the Office of the Public Trustee; c)
information pertinent to working
within the office, such as an office
floor plan, emergency procedures,
and security arrangements.

B.C. Police College, as it was
known then, opened its doors to
the first recruit class. That training institute was the embryo from
which the JI grew three years
later. D

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requirements. To assist court
registry staff throughout the
province in this demanding work,
program services, working with
personnel from court service's
methods procedures and productivity section, designed a unique
manual to meet the various
workplace requirements. The
result is a manual that has
received acclaim (unusual for any
procedures manual!} from users.
Features of the manual include:
a} flow charts that outline the
numerous processing steps;
b} reproduction of forms with commentary on how they are to be
completed; c} cross-referencing of
several processing elements so as
to present the overall processing
"picture."
Extension programs has recently produced two volumes of conference proceedings and has
prepared content material for a
third. Proceedings from the
Children in the Justice System
conference, which was held in
June 1988, are available from Extension Programs at a cost of$10
each for government and nonprofit agencies and libraries; $15
each for others. Proceedings from
the HIV-AIDS Counselling
Project conference held in October
1989, have just been printed and
are being distributed to conference participants. Proceedings
from the Adolescent Sex Offender
conference, which were prepared
at the JI, will also soon be ready
for distribution to conference participants.
Extension programs also
produces a newsletter for the Victim Assistance Program entitled
Victim Seroices News, and is
producing a series of victim support worker handbooks for this
same program. Handbooks on
Wife Assault, Child Sexual Abuse
and Sexual Assault have been distributed to Victim Assistance
Programs in B.C. and are available free of charge to individuals
or groups working in those areas
of concern. Other titles in the
series will be Victims of Crime
an:d Volunteer Management. CJ
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First responder program
rushing ahead
Development of the first responder program is rushing ahead
at a frantic pace. On January 31,
the steering committee gave
course developers Derek White
and Jim Bond the OK to proceed
with a full draft of the student
manual, and on March 22 the
completed draft of the manual
was mailed to the steering committee and the external validation committee. This was a
phenomenal accomplishment;
most other institutions take six
months to achieve what Derek
and Jim did in just seven weeks.
The steering committee also endorsed a title for the course which
it thinks distinguishes graduates
of the new first responder program from other types of first
responders. The title First Medical Responder will be recommended to the Justice Institute's
policy advisory committee (senior
officials from all three services
who give guidance on JI activities} on April 24.
Fire fighters, police officers
and emergency medical assis-

tants have wrestled for years
with the question of who should
be doing what at the scene of an
emergency. This course should
help answer some of those
questions. The course tags skills
and knowledge as "Prime" and
"Non-Prime." If a fire fighter or
police officer is "prime" on a
skill it means that he or she is
expected to do it in the absence
of any more highly trained
medical person. A person who is
"non-prime" on a skill has been
taught how to do it but will only
use the skill under the supervision of a more highly trained
medical person. Now, members
of the three services should have
a clearer understanding of what
to expect from one another. The
course will also help introduce
new and more sophisticated
procedures to fire fighters and
police officers under controlled
conditions.
The hectic schedule for the
remainder of the course development will continue with the following deadlines:

Mm-ch22Mail out a draft of the student manual to internal and
external validators
March26Police, Fire, and EHS Academy directors meet to discuss
pilot programs
April 9Review comments from external validators
April 11Steering committee meets to make changes based on comments
from external validators
April24Present package of recommendations to the JI Policy Advisory
Committee
MaylFirst pilot course scheduled for the JI
May 8 ·June 30 Pilot courses run in locations around the province
July 1Begin training selected graduates to become First Medical
Responders for their departments

September 15 Courses begin in departments around the province. CJ
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Dangerous goods ...

Spotlight ..• con'tfrom page 3
representatives of the municipal
police, Kim Rossmo and Mark
Johnstone (Human Relations Instructor). They discussed current
social, economic and technological trends and demographics, and
potential future developments.
Paulette Doyle, Co-ordinator,
Family Violence Initiatives, Law
Enforcement Division of Alberta
Solicitor General's Ministry,
visited Police Academy for the
week of March 12-16 to monitor
the Crisis Intervention training
program for Block III recruits.
Ms. Doyle is planning a standard
training course on this topic for
police in Alberta and she indi-

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cated that the JI program is
more extensive and comprehensive than any other she has been
able to identify.
RCMP Assistant Commissioner, Pat Banning, accompanied by Superintendent Dave
Maxwell from the Audit Directorate, Ottawa, visited Police
Academy to discuss the current
state ofRCMP liaison with the
JI. Police Academy Director Phil
Crosby-Jones was happy to
report that the level of co-operation continues to be excellent,
especially with the Fairmont
Academy, RCMP training facility
in Vancouver. D

Room booking policy
approved

Chicago Fire Department
HazMat Team, and Mr. Gene
Carlson, Associate Director of
Fire Protection Publications at
Oklahoma State University. The
remaining 19 participants included representatives from the
Pacific Marine Training Institute;
a number of paid, volunteer and
industrial fire departments; the
Justice Institute's PEP and Police
Academies; and manufacturers.
Irwin DeVries, Deputy Director of
Fire Academy, facilitated the
workshop.
The skill chart developed in
the workshop will be used to
develop a special training
package for use by all first
responders. 0

by Irwin DeVries, Chair, Room Booking Committee

The Justice Institute room booking committee, consisting of a representative from each academy
and division, is charged with the
task of developing and proposing
classroom space allocation policy
and procedures, and managing
the overall process of classroom
allocation. In addition, it is working with the bursar's office and a
team of advanced computer students from BCIT to computerize
the room booking system. The
committee does not deal with office or storage space.
Room allocation is not an easy
job at the best of times, and when
a large number of courses are
held at the same time, it can get
downright tough. To simplify
things, at the request of the
executive committee the room
booking committee was assigned
to develop a room booking policy.
After a great deal of discussion
and revision, a set of policies and
procedures was approved.
In brief, the policy formalizes
the classroom booking process. It
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assigns different priorities to different types of activities, specifies
"preferred rooms" to which each
academy and division has special
access, establishes required lead
times for bookings on the basis of
preferred or free rooms and activity priority, and to add. a little
action to an otherwise dull day,
allows certain limited "bumping"
rights. The policy will be distributed soon, and each room
booking representative is asked
to make sure academy/divisional
staff are conversant with it.
The policies will be written
into the computer program. As
the academies and divisions become networked, they will be
able to tap directly into the system, although bookings will still
be entered by the room booking
clerk.
The room booking committee
is a good example of communication and co-operation among
academies and divisions, which
are part of what makes the Justice Institute a special place. 0
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